A near-miss missile incident in March in Odesa involving the Greek Prime Minister in Odesa has spurred Greece to increase its military aid to Ukraine.
        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          61·
          4 months ago

          Like 20% of the population will always support whoever is in power, another 10% will unless everyone is actively dying where they live, and then 30%-40% don’t care enough about politics to do wrongspeak. I don’t know what poll you’re looking at, but any additional percent is probably related to who’s doing the polling. Maybe 2% is there that actually supports it out of genuine independent thought, and even that I doubt because it’s just an objectively stupid war.

          TL;DR we’re all just humans, and your countrymen would too in the same situation.

      • Crampon@lemmy.world
        41·
        4 months ago

        Have you seen russian first aid? (Nsfl)

        Russians are, lets say unique. Always has been. There are attitudes in the Russian population that are cultural conflicting with peaceful societies. Dont excuse this campaign by blaming it on one individual. He has support.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        4 months ago

        I mean, past 1800 AD or so they were all degrees of shit everywhere agriculturalised. I don’t have any reason to expect Feodor I was noticeably worse than Elizabeth I.

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
            1·
            4 months ago

            Hmm. It had mostly died out in England by her time, apparently, which is interesting. It wasn’t formally abolished until 1925, but obviously was in practice.

            Elizabeth was the first pre-modern English monarch I thought of, but she was also one of the most repressive from what I’ve heard. She was also the first to adopt a policy of genocidal brutality in Ireland. Feodor… was apparently sickly and possibly intellectually disabled. I wonder if life was easier or harder at the time than it had been under the princes.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      4 months ago

      Ukraine has stated they need 150-200 of them and I believe this commitment plus those from Denmark and the Netherlands will get them near 100.

      • Damage
        32·
        4 months ago

        200? do they plan to no-fly-zone the whole of Russia?

        • holycrap@lemm.ee
          14·
          4 months ago

          They can only carry a few missiles at a time, ukraine is huge, and some will inevitably get shot down.

          200 sounds about right.

        • Dremor@lemmy.world
          9·
          4 months ago

          Not all of them will fly at the same time.
          Some will be unavailable for various repairs, some will be too far from the interception target to get in time, some will inevitably destroyed from time to time. 200 isn’t that far fetched.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Will they be able to get 3 working ones from these wrecks though? If they were in good condition, they’d still be using them.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      If they’ve already had their most advanced pieces of hardware pulled out, its doubtful. Nevermind finding someone to actually pilot the damned things.

      What Ukraine needs more than anything right now is more young professionals capable of operating the hardware of war. What they’re getting is a military garage sale.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        If nothing else, these can parts and trainers . That’s pretty important.